World of Warcraft: Current Year

Vorph_sl said:

Integrating garrison management in the b.net app would alleviate a lot of the problem, but it's not something I expect to see implemented anytime soon, if ever.

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They've specifically said they're NOT going to do it. Basically, they don't expect the have the garrison in the next expansion (we'd have to rebuild one anyway), so they're not going to bother writing special sections for stuff that won't go away.

(and they also added that they regretted making Archaeology as it is, rather than a single-expansion feature)


Regarding the mission problem, simple solution:

1) You have one mission slot per active follower (or your follower cap, whichever is lower)
2) You're eligible for pool 1 if you have any follower 90-94, pool 2 if any is 95-99 and pool 3 if any is 100.
3) If you have only one pool, all mission (yes, all 25 of them) come from that pool. If you have two pools, odd slots are from one, even slots from the other. If 3, then it's 1-2-3 rotating.
4) Missions are picked at random if they're allowed; you're not allowed missions below your lowest active follower or higher than your highest one (and yes, that means 615 missions start spawning as soon as you have ONE 615 follower)
5) Missions 90-99 respawn after 24h; 100 after 48h, rare double that (48/96).
6) And finally, rate of crate drop is 20% for 90-99, 40% for 100 or 99- rares, 80% for level 100 rares.

That way, you don't need to keep a 99 follower. It doesn't matter if you send two low level missions over two days, or one 100 over two days: you don't get crates any faster. But you're now incentivized to have only 100 followers: you get more chances of missions with lots of GR, gold, tokens, etc.

(in fact, I'm almost sure it works somewhat that way. But since they never explain their game mechanic, you have rumors, like "big crates have lower token drop rates", which is a purely psychological effect due to the fact that a big crate always drop one additional green trash guaranteed over a normal, so you remember those and don't "see" the tokens)

kaid_sl said:

Hell the goblins have an entire zone for themselves and all the other races have pretty big capitals. Gnomes were previously somewhat ignored although there have traditionally been quite a few gnome quest hubs and now have a demi home city with the entry areas of gnomeregan retaken. Worgen though get nothing even in their "home city" they are just living in elf trees so not even their own enclave shows their architecture.

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They did not have ressources (ahem, remind me the number of millions of $ getting in every month?) to have racial garrisons (you just get to pick your guards), but I think they should have themed the buildings themselves. For alliance, the only non-human building I've seen is the dwarven bunker which looks... dwarvish. I assume the engineer stuff looks a bit gnomish? They could have put more diversity:

- Enchanter, mage tower: draenei
- Tailor, alchemy: night elf
- Engineer, workshop: gnomish
- Forge, bunker: dwarvish
- Storage, Trading Post: worgen
- Inn, garden: pandaren
- rest: remain human

your garrison would have reflected the hodge-podge of the Alliance, since it couldn't be themed from your origins.

Nola_sl said:

Do you still need a character with inscription to make one or everything can be done with the inscription building.

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All of the profession buildings can make every basic item, up to ilvl 640 (need level 3 building, meaning you need level 100 even if the item is 91 req. Unless you run it for your alts).

The characters with professions are the ones who make the upgrades to 655 and higher.